SC Daily Gazette

Removing the Confederate flag from Statehouse grounds was important. It was a powerful symbol of a long history of racial injustice. Now we are faced with an issue that is even more important — not symbol but substance. Voting rights are the substance, the core of racial justice, that people have lived and died for. The proposed map would unfairly impair the ability of hundreds of thousands of South Carolinians to have a voice in Congress. We hope our legislators will make a thoughtful and fair choice.